An investor risks money. An entrepreneur risks his or her life. An investor has a portfolio of investments. If a few succeed the investor succeeds. An entrepreneur has only one life. If the company goes down the entrepreneur goes down with it.
The risk that an entrepreneur takes and the risk that an investor takes are asymmetric.
Which is why we as investors have huge respect for founders
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Today, we’re launching Meteoric (YC S26).
Our drones clear clouds over solar farms to increase their annual output by 10-30% without using any chemicals.
Ultimate target: weaken severe storms and hurricanes.
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We quit our jobs.
There were six of us — Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Yogesh Vaidya, Subhash Arora, D.S. Puri and me.
It was 1976. Startups were not really a thing in India. Venture capital did not exist. Banks were not exactly lining up to lend money to six young men with an idea and no collateral.
And computers? Most people had barely heard of them.
But we believed the microprocessor was going to change the world.
So we took the plunge.
Between the six of us, we managed to put together ₹1.87 lakh. We borrowed, pooled our savings and, in one case, even sold a car.
Our first office was a small barsati in Golf Links, Delhi.
We called ourselves Microcomp. We wanted to build an Indian computer.
There was just one problem.
We didn’t have a manufacturing licence.
That eventually led us to UP Electronics Corporation. They had the licence. We had the technology. And that partnership gave birth to Hindustan Computers Limited — HCL.
But perhaps the most audacious part of the story was what happened next.
We started selling a computer that was still being designed.
We had a brochure and a mock-up of the machine. That was it.
Our sales teams went across India, knocking on doors and convincing businesses to buy into a technology they had never used before.
The first orders came from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras.
Then came the harder part — convincing businesses.
In Coimbatore, we were up against DCM DP, a much bigger and more established name. I still remember sitting in the reception area of Premier Mills while the DCM team made its pitch.
We went in second.
And we won.
That one order gave us five more. Then ten.
That was HCL in those early years: not having the biggest balance sheet, the biggest brand or the easiest path — but finding a way.
We were restless.
We looked for gaps. We hired people who had what we called a “cowboy” spirit. We believed that technology had to be made useful and accessible, not intimidating.
And we kept moving.
From building India’s early indigenous computers to taking our business to Singapore when HCL was just four years old. From a small room in Delhi to a global technology company.
When I look back at 50 years, I think about six people sitting together in 1976, wondering if this crazy idea could actually work.
I think about a barsati.
A brochure for a computer that did not yet exist.
And the courage to knock on the next door.
That, to me, is the real HCL story.
50 years later, the technology has changed beyond anything we could have imagined.
But the spirit remains the same:
Dream big. Take the risk. And above all, Just Aspire.
Happy 50th, HCL.
What a journey it has been.
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Turkey : A Muslim woman in Hijab is seen pricking a needle on the shoulder of a Christian girl without Hijab. It’s extremely dangerous as the needle could be infected with a deadly virus and may cause severe disease.
Why they hate non muslims ?
Dear Girls, Be alert everywhere
Bollywood bias!
A study by IIM Prof. Dheeraj Sharma analyzing films from 1960 to 2010 reveals a fixed code of demographic stereotypes:
> 58% of corrupt politicians were given Brahmin surnames.
> 62% of corrupt businessmen were associated with Vaishya surnames.
> 84% of Muslim characters were portrayed as strongly honest and religious.
> 78% of Christian women were hyper-sexualized and portrayed as promiscuous.
> 74% of Sikh characters were reduced to mere comic relief.
> 90% of films featuring Pakistan projected them as welcoming and courteous.
Cinema is not just reflecting reality, but it is actively shaping our biases.
What are your thoughts on this?
These GenZ girls from Bengal posted a video celebrating the BJP victory and chanting Jai Shree Ram.
Now, they are constantly getting grape threats from a particular community and they have made a video requesting every sanatani to support and protect them.
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What happened in Delhi's Sultanpuri is downright horrendous!
Muslim mob attacked a Hindu mother-daughter duo, tore their clothes, bit them with teeth, in an open market with thousands of Hindus as bystanders.
We have already become Pakistan — pending announcement.
कुछ ही समय पहले तक आप भारतीय टीम में भी नहीं थे, लेकिन जिस आत्मविश्वास और आक्रामकता के साथ आपने वापसी की है, वह सचमुच प्रेरणादायक है। हमारे अपने झारखंड के कप्तान ईशान किशन ने यह साबित कर दिया है कि मेहनत और दृढ़ संकल्प से हर चुनौती को पार किया जा सकता है।
झारखंड के कप्तान एवं भारतीय टीम के अभिन्न सदस्य के रूप में आपका दमदार प्रदर्शन और मैदान पर पूरे जोश के साथ खेलना यह दिखाता है कि सच्चे खिलाड़ी चुनौतियों से घबराते नहीं, बल्कि और मजबूत होकर लौटते हैं।
पूरे झारखंड को आप पर गर्व है। आपकी यह शानदार वापसी और प्रदर्शन राज्य के युवाओं के लिए बड़ी प्रेरणा है।
हार्दिक बधाई और आगे के लिए ढेरों शुभकामनाएँ। 🇮🇳
या ख़ुदा रहम कर तेरी क़ौम पर…. इतनी छोटी सी उम्र में क्या सिखा रहे हैं हम अपने बच्चों को?
जो घर की चार दीवारी में बड़े सोचते हैं… वही सरे बाज़ार बच्चे बोलते हैं।
इतनी नफ़रत….
The boy thinks Israel is some individual he can stab in the chest and get away with just 20 years in jail.
He also thinks Modi is Mossad’s agent, who first went to Iran, noted where Ali Khamenei sits, sleeps, prays namaz, and breaks his roza at iftari, then went to Israel and handed over those coordinates, after which Israel carried out a precise strike and killed Khamenei.
The sheer peak of brainwashing.
Milestone!
Ellinas Finance becomes the first overseas company to start its secondary listing on NSE-IX at GIFT City — a key outcome of PM @narendramodi’s 2025 Cyprus visit.
Cyprus is now the first country to operationalise this cross-border capital markets partnership, boosting India’s rise as a global financial hub
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